Ethanol Production from Acetate: A Path to the Economically Viable Bioethanol

摘要

One of the big difficulties of using bioethanol as an effective alternative for agricultural alcohol is economically obtaining a viable source of bioethanol. Both current methods of producing bioethanol, reducing carbon dioxide or the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose or lignocellulo.se, are onerous. In this context, the acetate-to-ethanol reduction has shown to be a promising source of economically viable bioethanol. Many works consider that obtaining ethanol from acetate would be excessively onerous due to the cost of separating acetate present in wastewaters.1 There is, however, an abundant natural source of acetate that has been neglected in this discussion: chitin.